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Best known today for his military campaigns against the Indians before and after the Civil War, George Crook rose from the command of the 36th Ohio Infantry to the command of a cavalry division which fought in Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. During the war he became friends with future president Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Ambrose Burnside was a Union General who fought many battles in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, including First Bull Run, the Battle of Roanoke Island, Antietam, and Fredericksburg. He served briefly as Commander of the Army of the Potomac before being transferred to the Western Theater after a disastrous charge at Fredericksburg, Virginia. After another failure at the Battle of the Crater, he was relived of duty and eventually retired from service.
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Visit the ruins of the Pinery Station and get a sense of the isolation and rugged beauty that travelers experienced here in 1858. The old stone walls stand today as a testament to the spirit of change that early travelers, station keepers, and stage drivers carried as they passed this way over a century and a half ago.
Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi
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The Elliott Coues House was the Washington D.C. residence of the prominent American ornithologist Elliott C. Coues from 1887 to his death in 1899. While residing at the home, Elliott Coues studied bird species from across the nation and wrote some of the most important texts in North American ornithology.
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The Indian Agency at Fort Larned
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Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is a Spanish Colonial site in Arizona and a Certified Interpretive Site on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail. An Anza NHT Passport Stamp is available at the visitor center. The site also provides trailhead access to a portion of the Anza Recreational Trail.
Adam Paine
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Adam Paine was born in Florida in 1843. He personally experienced Indian Removal in the 1840s. Paine and other Black Seminoles relocated to Mexico in the 1850s. He later joined the Black Seminole Indian Scouts in 1873. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on September 26, 1874. He died on January 1, 1877.
John Ward
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John Ward was a Black Seminole Indian born in 1847 in Arkansas. He served for 25 years in the Black Seminole Indian Scouts working along the Buffalo Soldiers on the Texas frontier. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions of April 25, 1875. He died in 1911 and was buried at the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery in Brackettville, Texas.
Isaac Payne
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Isaac Payne was a Black Seminole born in Musquiz, Mexico in 1854. He enlisted as a trumpeter in the Seminole Indian Scouts in October of 1871. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on April 25, 1875. He died on January 12, 1904 and is buried int eh Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery in Brackettville, Texas.
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William McBryar
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Henry O. Flipper
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Henry Ossian Flipper was born enslaved on March 21, 1856, in Thomasville, Georgia. He was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877. He was dishonorably discharged from the Army on June 30, 1882, based on racist motives of some white officers he served with. He was posthumously pardoned on February 19, 1999.
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Henry Johnson (1850-1904)
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